“No slacking! Do it more efficiently!”

I was getting near the place where they were training, I could hear them shouting.

I wonder what kind of train…ing

What came right before my eyes were little kids carrying gigantic stones and passing them around like light balls.

Truly an intriguing sight to behold.

“Hm? Oh! Enrica~!” [Shen]

“More power, you magg-! What is it Shen? Can’t you see I’m busy?” [Enrica]

“Turn around~” [Shen]

“Hm? Eek!” [Enrica]

“Hey Lan! Had enough sleep?” [Ruin]

“Yo, yeah, I had my fill. You sure work em hard huh?” [Lan]

“Of course, imagine if they’d encounter what we did and they’d be weaker than us” [Ruin]

“Aren’t they pretty strong already? I mean…” [Lan]

You can totally imagine them carrying a city if they work together…

“Strength in general, for sure but battle strength is different ya know” [Ruin]

“Sup Lan?” [Shen]

“Uh Hi Shen… Yo Enrica” [Lan]

I thought I could just wash away what happened last night.

The accident that turned into an incident flash before my eyes as I saw her.

It was an accident… it couldn’t be helped… couldn’t be helped…

“H-Hello La-“ [Enrica]

“Oi” [Iron]

“…” [Lan]

“So it’s you… you motherf-” [Iron]

“Iron” [Ruin]

“Pull out your best weapon. Now” [Iron]

“Why?” [Lan]

“NOW!” [Iron]

The man who suddenly spoke between us was oozing with bloodlust.

I pulled out my dagger since I’m not used to sparklight yet.

I have a vague idea of what he’s leading on but I don’t like it

“Now what?” [Lan]

“Iron! Don’t!” [Enrica]

“Now” [Iron]

Without warning, he lunged to me.

The ground absorbed the impact of his kick and a small crater formed there

“We FIGHT!” [Iron]

He struck me with a metal stick that I avoided by the hair.

He’s fast!

Also… that clearly wasn’t an attack for a friendly spar

I don’t know why he holds hostility towards me but he really did mean to kill me; I felt it.

His strike hit air

With minimal nimble footwork, his back was faced to me but I didn’t attack

“Iron, stop this now!!!” [Enrica]

“Hey, shouldn’t you be stopping them?” [Shen]

“I know I should, I really know but… I wanna see how this turns out” [Ruin]

“Heh~ that’s new coming from you” [Shen]

Despite Enrica’s feeble attempt to stop us, her words didn’t reach this battle crazy dude named Iron

“Of course… insects have fast reflexes” [Iron]

Without flinching, he attempted hitting me again.

He swung his stick overhead then I took a step back to evade it.

He spun the stick once then followed with the tip aiming directly to my abdomen.

I saw it coming so I pivoted my right foot backwards; as if doing a half turn

I evaded his stab but

“\Cane…chain\” [Iron]

His stick broke into a few pieces; connected by chains

As he slashed at me without even facing me.

He did a clean horizontal cut, shoulder level… his shoulder level

It caught me by surprise since it was completely solid but the chain-like sound of his weapon hit me.

I enforced arcana unto my legs then jumped into air as his weapon barely passed me.

I clad my hand with electricity then reached my hand out to his weapon then

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA” [Iron]

It was… over